Faberge Egg Project Process
The first major First Year Project was to make our own interpretation of a Faberge Egg.
Mine is based of an Ancient Grecian Urn. With the narrative qualities of Greek pottery so prominent throughout my research, I decided the exterior needed to tell a story. I chose the mythical story of Circe the sea witch, who turned the once-beautiful Scylla into a vicious sea monster with multiple heads, so these figures are depicted by the low relief on the outer side of the egg. The inside creates a diorama which shows the monster Scylla became.
Finally, the 'urn' is presented as if washed up on the rocky shores of a beach after many years of being lost at sea. Thanks for looking!
I drew templates on CorelDraw for the profiles of the egg shape and attached these to my green chemiwood.
I used the bandsaw to make the cuts.
Progress photo - green chemiwood and the early stages of making the Egg tool
I used styrene templates to help me create an accurate and symmetrical shape.
I consistently checked the shape with various template I made out of styene.
Egg shape sanded back with the help of styrene templates
Egg tool vac formed to create shell
'crack line' cut with a scalpel and Japenese blade
Low relief sculpted in plastercine and mould made around them
Silicone mould created. Pieces were then cast in fast cast
The leaf pattern at the top were asecut. The handles were lasercut and then a little milliput was sculpted on top. Assembled, then base colour sprayed on and dry brush was used to age and texture.
Assembling and painted barnacles. These had previously been casted in fast cast, so I could create multiples and position them around the egg.
Dry Brush technique used to add sense of depth. These leafs were also moulded and cast in fast cast, then bent to shape as they were setting in order to sit against this bell shape (carved out of chemiwood).
One sea monster was sculpted and a silicone box mould was made. I then casted multiple and bent the necks after heating the fast cast pieces in the oven. Hand painted, stuck into egg and miliput was used to sculpt waves around them.
Miliput waves painted and Vallejo water effects used to create desired effect.
White acrylic paint to make 'white horses' of waves.
Small pieces of cotton wool to create more dimension to waves.
The basic structure of the rock stand was created using polystyrene. I then textures and painted it.
I used the dry brush technique to create the desired texture.
More barnacles added, this time sculpted with miliput against the rock surface. These were then painted. Thanks for reading about the process of this project!